Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Reboot (My Take)

Upon seeing Joseph Kahn and Adi Shankar's "Power/Rangers" short film (a.ka. "Power Rangers: The Unauthorized Bootleg," I could not believe myself. While it had some stunning effects and breathtaking plot points in it surrounding the Rangers after their supposed final battle, I was left with my head scratching. So, I am now expressing what should have been.

Over the past “X” amount of days, I got bitten by the Ranger/Sentai Bug after so many years of taking my time off the Power Rangers fandom. I, myself, am a big fan of the whole series (save a few seasons here and there like "Overdrive") and feel that a reboot should get a treatment better than its source material.

Two weeks ago, I happened to see Joseph Kahn and Adi Shankar's "Power/Rangers" short film (a.k.a. "Power Rangers Unauthorized Bootleg" as Shankar put it) and got a mixed bag out of it.

So, in order to counter the effects of the bad part of the mixed bag, I devised a list of who can make a better reboot work and what elements should have been included. Here it is:

WRITER = Frank Miller ("300") - If you have anyone else in your mind on who should be the writer, feel free to comment.

COMPOSERS = Ron Wasserman, Tomoyasu Hotei (previously a composer for the "Kill Bill" movie series), & Brandon Flowers (the latter being the singer of the Las Vegas-based band The Killers)

Now, some of the plot elements that I can suggest:

* Have Jason, Trini, and Zack intact with Jason being the White Ranger to replace Tommy later

* Pair Kimberly up with another guy within the team. Billy would be my personal recommendation. As any of you might have seen, Pink and Blue have one of the strongest inter-character chemistries in the show. Tomberly romance is overrated from what I perceived. Oh, and leave the homosexuality of Billy's previous actor (David Yost) out of the question. In other words, think that the situations that led Mr. Yost's departure from the show before "Zeo" was over did NOT happen.

* Pop culture should have a decent degree of references. For example, elements from video games like "Street Fighter" and "King of Fighters" and anime's like "Mobile Fighter G Gundam" could help certain scenes more vivid (e.g. fight scenes).

* The reboot should have deeper origin stories. For instance, there should be something like Zordon and Lord Zedd being blood brothers and going to war with each other later on before the events of the MMPR reboot

* Have the Rangers develop their fighting abilities based on the warriors of the old (e.g. Mongolian warrior from the Khan dynasty, Japanese Samurai, ninjas, ancient Siamese warriors, and heck even the Roman Legions and the German Teutonic Knights). Have traces of certain moves as to convey how they relate to techniques used by those that have gone before in battle. This would be likened to the origins of the Ansatsuken, the fighting style Ryu, Ken, Gouken, and Akuma use in "Street Fighter."

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